Google SERP changes May 2016
Published on May 14, 2016
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Search Engine Journal (searchenginejournal.com) has an article out regarding some recent changes showing up in Google's search engine results. Titles and descriptions are both being lengthened. They do caution that these changes may be just temporary and could disappear at any time.
From the article:
"Title tags have been increased to 70–71 characters, which is up from its previous 50–60 characters. That’s at least enough to fit in another word or two.
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Meta descriptions have been increased by 100 characters per line, and extended from two to three lines. That’s a significant increase, and presents far more of an opportunity to tell searchers what the page is about.
Slegg reports that Google is still truncating the descriptions to two lines for many search results still, so you may still see them coming in at around 160 characters at times. When an three line snipped is display they come in at 278 characters per line."
Source: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-titles-and-descriptions-2016/163812
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